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Q&A: Tammy Tibbetts and She's the First

Submitted by Megan Hess on June 18, 2010 - 1:24am

Tammy Tibbetts, 24, is the founder of She’s the First, a call to action to promote the importance of educating girls who live in developing countries and would otherwise not have the opportunity to go to school.Read more

Workin' It in the Workplace: A Woman's Guide

Submitted by Megan Hess on May 27, 2010 - 11:16pm

When Elena Kagan was nominated as the 112th Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, women leaders rejoiced. If she is confirmed, there will be three women on the Supreme Court for the first time – quite a measure of how far women have come.
 
Today, more women are graduating from college than men, and there are twice the number of female entrepreneurs as men, according to the Harvard Business Review. And did you know that women control 60 percent of all the wealth in America?
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Q&A: Jon Severson on a Weekend of Skiing and Networking

Submitted by Megan Hess on March 31, 2010 - 8:19am

Jon Severson is the president and founder of the Colorado Young Professionals. From Friday, Feb. 26, to Sunday, Feb. 28, savvy YPs from around the country gathered in Colorado to hit the slopes and network.Read more

Q&A: David Cohn on Web-Based Freelancing

Submitted by Megan Hess on March 4, 2010 - 7:37am

Convincing editors to fund story pitches can take months – even years. But through the nonprofit Web site Spot.Us, the community is funding one story per week on average.
 
Spot.Us is a nonprofit that enables journalists to solicit donations from the public to pay for their reporting. Most donors give around $20, and all are named. Anyone can propose a story, although the editors at Spot.Us decide which stories to pursue.
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